Hemalurgist Posted August 14, 2015 Posted August 14, 2015 (edited) According to the Alloy of Law Ars Arcanum wearing an aluminum helmet can protect the user from emotional allomancy. So if an inquisitor, koloss or kandra were to wear an aluminum helmet would they be protected from ruin's influence? Also similarly would burning copper protect an inquisitor from ruin? That would be odd though because I would have imagined at least some inquisitors would have tried it then. Edited August 14, 2015 by Hemalurgist
Oudeis he/him Posted August 14, 2015 Posted August 14, 2015 The common theory is that it would help "some", in as much as technically holding up an umbrella would have protected you very, very slightly from, say, Hurricane Katrina. Ruin, keep in mind, is as near a God as makes no nevermind. Mere duralumin could be used to overcome the resistance living bodies give to steelpushes; with the force of a Shard, it's commonly suspected that the resistance to be found in aluminum hats would be marginal at best. 1
Hemalurgist Posted August 14, 2015 Author Posted August 14, 2015 I would think that would be the case with a copper cloud, but there obvious limits to ruins power such as he is unable to see clearly when there is enough metal or that he can't read minds or change and read what is written in metal. These things don't seem to be a matter of power, but limits that are wired into the way the world works. So I was wondering if aluminum might be similar as it has a lot of anti investiture effects (it has no atium shadow, gold healing won't right with aluminum in the wound, and I am not sure if we ever saw a duralumin or nicroburst on steel or push in relation to aluminum, but I think that it wouldn't work). So as I was wondering if aluminum might not provide resistance to ruin, but block him out all together.
Oudeis he/him Posted August 14, 2015 Posted August 14, 2015 I would be very surprised, but who knows? We didn't know of aluminum's native properties until Alloy of Law, when no one could use both duralumin and anything else allomanctically, and there's not yet been a nicroburst to test the effects, so we don't know yet. I would, however, be surprised.
natc Posted August 15, 2015 Posted August 15, 2015 I would think that would be the case with a copper cloud, but there obvious limits to ruins power such as he is unable to see clearly when there is enough metal or that he can't read minds or change and read what is written in metal. These things don't seem to be a matter of power, but limits that are wired into the way the world works. So I was wondering if aluminum might be similar as it has a lot of anti investiture effects (it has no atium shadow, gold healing won't right with aluminum in the wound, and I am not sure if we ever saw a duralumin or nicroburst on steel or push in relation to aluminum, but I think that it wouldn't work). So as I was wondering if aluminum might not provide resistance to ruin, but block him out all together. Inquisitor steel/ironsight suggests that with enough power even trace metals in human bodies and other matter can cause allomancy to manifest steel/ironlines. Aluminum does not show up to coinshots and lurchers even at large quantities, so it's probably outright immune.
Guest Posted August 30, 2015 Posted August 30, 2015 I doubt a hat alone would do much vs Ruin, since I see no reason he couldn't simply go around the hat. A full suit or Aluminum armor might work, depending on the details of how Ruin's power works/how Aluminum works. As for a Coppercloud, I doubt there's an Allomancer powerful enough.
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